Russia launches U.S. telecom satellite

A Russian Proton-M launcher with a U.S. EchoStar-15 telecommunications satellite blast off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Saturday, Russia's Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center said. The carrier rocket was launched at 22:40 Moscow time (1840 GMT) . The satellite is scheduled to separate about 9 hours and 13 minutes after the liftoff, and will be orbited at longitude 61.5 east, a spokesman of the space center said. More

(Source: Xinhua - Jul 12)